No Place to Land the Plane
Sociology professor Ulrich Beck, from Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians University and the London School of Economics has a thought-provoking article in the Guardian on how the conversation about increased use of nuclear power is being framed by political leaders today.He writes:
"...the actors who are supposed to be the guarantors of security and rationality - the state, science and industry - are engaged in a highly ambivalent game. They are no longer trustees but suspects, no longer managers of risks but also sources of risks. For they are urging the population to climb into an aircraft for which a landing strip has not yet been built."
Several of the comments are worth a look as well.